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Microsoft DBA, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Client:
Optimus E2E
Location:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Views:
7
Posted:
17.02.2025
Expiry Date:
03.04.2025
Job Description:
Job Description
Our client, a rapidly expanding startup based in Newcastle, servicing leading financial organisations, is looking to hire the best talent in the region.
If you're keen to work in a demanding and fast-paced role, with unparalleled growth opportunities, and are passionate about technology and solving complex problems, then this could be the role for you!
Responsibilities:
* Wide and inquisitive interest in general technology and ability to turn your hand to many different technical problems.
* Passionate about the robust nature of the technologies under your ownership and will take pride in delivering productivity, quality, and reliability.
* A good understanding of ITIL processes, in particular a structured approach to continuous improvement of the production environment.
* Respect for timelines and an in-built urgency to resolve issues in a timely way.
* Great team player with DevOps, Support, QA, and Dev colleagues, never blaming others when problems arise.
* Form strong, honest, and mutually respectful relationships with key clients, visiting their offices as required.
* Have the ability to learn new technologies and expand the role and your skills.
* On-call is expected once every 4 weeks, overnight/weekend and only for production issues.
Experience:
* Maintain on-premise and Azure SQL databases (upgrades, high availability backup administration, monitoring, optimisations of DB Servers, optimisations of SQL/procedures).
* Work with Cloud Azure SQL Server, Data Lake, and related cloud data storage technologies.
* Strong MS SQL knowledge with the ability to interrogate data stores and schema, investigate the results, and provide solutions to improve performance.
* Work with and challenge developers, and support business to improve the use of SQL Server via better schemas, performant stored procedures/views/functions.
Preferred:
* High availability via Always-On and Basic Availability Groups.
* Backup/restore (DB/transaction logs).
* Powershell - dbatools or SqlServer modules.
* Performance optimisation.
* SQL Server Maintenance - Agent Jobs, Monitoring.
* SQL Server configuration.
* Partitioning.
* SQL snapshots.
* Change data capture.
* Understanding of SAN arrays - Nimble preferred, PURE or others acceptable.
* Financial services experience is a bonus, but not essential.
For this particular opportunity, there is a requirement to be based in their Newcastle office 5 days per week, and have first-class education results (minimum 2:1, ideally from Russell Group Universities), along with the right to work in the UK.
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